Too pissed off to think up a witty title.

[raggedyanndy]

For immediate release May 18, 2011
Contact: Amanda Harrington (414) 803-9556

Finance Committee Votes to Dismantle Family Planning in the State of WisconsinThis afternoon, all Republicans on the Joint Committee on Finance voted to dismantle Wisconsin’s family planning program by restricting the ability of most of Wisconsin’s women’s health centers

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[thepikey]

Go forth and multiply! Every sperm is sacred! Etc.

[magus_69]

[sesmo]

This, fucking this. It's NOT about saving money, it's NOT about abortion, and it's NOT about anything except trying to fuck over women. HOW the hell do people vote for this shit? Do they not have mothers, wives, daughters? Fuck them all.

[captain_emily]

Of course they do. But I'm sure most of the people voting for this bullshit are men, and therefore superior to and in charge of us poor, hysterical womenfolk. It's their God-given duty to protect and have dominion over us.

I feel nauseous for having typed that.

[bib_specialist]

It's not just women, when you combine this with everything else they're doing it's everybody who's not a Republican, rich, white or male they want to fuck over. They're doing it out of sheer spite, because they have the power and they can, because they get their jollies from fucking people over, they're sick, sick fucks. When you see how they passed the voter ID bill yesterday and realize how closely it resembles the Nazi takeover of the Reichstag in 1933, you realize that this is what fascism looks like. Wisconsin has been taken over by sociopaths.

[carmy_w]

They aren't the only state; not by a long shot. Kansas is getting as bad, at least.
And from what I don't hear, I have a feeling that our Democratic party is absolutely floundering. I feel like I should be hearing people screaming on street corners protesting this stuff, and....nothing. Not a word, not an email, not a thing.

[kyra_neko_rei]

Sure---but THEY have money and decent health insurance, so THEIR mothers, wives, and daughters won't feel the slightest pinch at the loss of Planned Parenthood funding. Unless of course one of the daughters wants some birth control to engage in unauthorized sex-having, in which case, better to make Planned Parenthood unable to help her because everyone knows that without easily accessable birth control, the daughter in question will settle quiescently into abstinence like the good little girl she undoubtedly would have always been if PP hadn't been there to fill her head with ideas about her body being hers.

[roseofjuly]

In addition to what captain_emily said, they are also usually middle-class or upper-class. They have health insurance and/or the funds to travel long distances - even to Europe - to get an abortion for their female relatives, or to pay an ob/gyn to come to their home to perform one, and they have health insurance and/or the funds to provide birth control and reproductive health screening for their mothers, wives, and daughters.

So they don't care about the people who can't afford to do so, because they've got theirs.

[kyra_neko_rei]

Possibly they think every unwanted pregnancy means a chance at bullying a woman into continuing it and having a baby she doesn't want or can't afford.

If a woman has sex without consequences, that's almost as bad as her having an abortion and thus getting only minimal consequences---if not worse, because unpregnant women don't have to run the gauntlet of protesters (and the other gauntlet of restrictions), and thus are getting off scot-free.

[roseofjuly]

This. It was never really about fetuses; it's about controlling women's reproductive control over their bodies. Either because they are under the delusion that women will stop having sex if they don't have access to reproductive health care, or because (more evilly) they believe that STIs and unwanted pregnancies are good punishments for not having sex the way they want women to have sex.